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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: the Emperor Kuang Hsu," which is quite in keeping with the
conduct and character of the Empress Dowager all her life except
those two bad years.
During the days and weeks following the dispossession of Kuang
Hsu of the throne, in 1899 many decrees appeared which signified
that at no distant date he would be superseded by the son of
Prince Tuan. The foreign ministers began again to look grave.
They spoke openly of their fear that Kuang Hsu's days were
numbered. They pressed their desire for the usual New Year's
audience, and once more the imprisoned monarch was brought forth
and made to sit upon the throne and receive them. But when the
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